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Do you want to know what you have there my friend?? You have a legal re issue of Snap-Ons ORIGINAL 1920'S socket patent. Ultra Rare bro.

From roughly 1942-1945 you will see non standardized punches. Reverse E, LV etc. They indicated emergency/contract runs. If you look at the LDH 662 USA and the backwards E and the LV 702 one you can see how unperfect and uneven the stamp marks are compared to the 682 one. That's because they...

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That's why I'm asking is to find out. Your right on the one but the one with the reverse E is from 1944. Look at how unperfect the stampings are compared to the one with the 4. That's because it was an emergency run and they were hand stamped in a rush.

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The "LV" not just the "V" like you said means Low-alloy Variant. They used a forged alloy during War time production because chromium and vanadium were diverted to armor and aircraft production. Did that help you out??

Give me a minute and I'll post the others. I just got up.

Hello everyone. I have a couple of sockets yall might find interesting and I was wondering what they might be worth. I have 3 Sockets from the WWII era. I have a Snap-On 2 3/16 LV 702, Snap-On 2 1/8 LDH 682 with a 4 stamped after USA and a Snap-On 2 1/16 LDH 662 with a reverse E stamped after...